“Mrs. Elizabeth Leichtner, aged forty-five, and for the past two years an inmate of the Infirmary, has of late manifested unmistakable signs of failing reason. This week her insanity assumed such a marked type that her arraignment before the Court, on a charge of lunacy, was deemed necessary by the Infirmary Board for the better protection of her own life, as well as that of the safety of the building. She was found on several occasions crouching behind the range, at the peril of setting her garments on fire.”
“Her hallucinations are many and varied, and were developed in an inquest held in the Probate office last Thursday forenoon, where, upon the testimony of witnesses, she was adjudged insane, and application will be made for her admittance to the Asylum at Athens. Her husband, who is an invalid, is an inmate of the Infirmary.”1
